Commercial Truck Insurance Blog
Blood Clots: An Occupational Danger for the Commercial or Owner Operator Truck Driver
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), occurs when a blood clot forms within a vein that’s deep in your body. It typically forms in the thigh or lower leg and often strikes people who spend hours sitting in one place. This is why it happens to airline passengers on long trips. However, commercial or owner operator truck drivers who spend hours on the road sitting in front of a steering […]
Flatbed Tarping Safety for the Commercial or Owner Operator Truck Driver
Dry van trucking isn’t easy. However, the flatbed trucker has an additional responsibility that’s often difficult and dangerous. This, is placing and securing a protective tarp over his load. The work is dangerous because it involves climbing and working at heights, sometimes on uneven or unstable loads. A hundred pound tarp is an unwieldy thing to handle, especially in a wind that can catch it and […]
How Commercial or Owner Operator Truck Drivers Can Avoid Repetitive Strain Injuries
Most people associate repetitive strain injuries with assembly line workers or perhaps people who spend too many hours using a keyboard. This certainly doesn’t describe the work of a commercial or owner operator truck driver, so how does this happen? Answer: the driving itself. Think about it, your hands, wrists, elbows, and shoulders make the same motions steering your rig for hours on end. Poor […]